Hades
as depicted on a bronze coin of Septimius Severus (AD 193-211), from
the mint of Gordus-Julia in Lydia: Hades carrying off Persephone.
Museum of Fine Arts, Boston 1972.12

Demeter

Ceres

agriculture, especially grain

fertility generally

sheaf of grain, polos, scepter, torch, sacrificial bowl

Demeter
as depicted on an Attic Red Figure neck-amphora, attributed to the
Berlin Painter (c 470 BC): Demeter holding torches. University
Museums, University of Mississippi 1977.3.86

Persephone / Kore

Proserpina

holds queenship over the underworld and the dead as Hades' wife

agriculture, especially grain

fertility generally

daughter of Demeter/Ceres

sheaf of grain, polos, scepter, torch, sacrificial bowl

Demeter,
boy (Ploutos?), Kore
as depicted on a High Classical stele (c 440-430 BC) from the
sanctuary of Demeter and Kore at Eleusis: Demeter (left, hair
unbound, holding a sceptre) and Kore (right, hair dressed up in a bun,
holding a long torch) stand flanking a boy.
Athens, National Archaeological Museum 126

Hestia

Vesta

virgin goddess of the hearth

eldest daughter of Kronos/Cronus

veil

Vesta
as depicted on a denarius (silver coin) of Lucius Cassius Longinus
(63 BC), from the mint of Rome: Vesta wearing diadem and veil.
Museum of Fine Arts, Boston 32.746

Apollo / Apollon

Apollo

archery

prophecy

music, poetry

medicine

youth and male beauty

sometimes identified with Phoebus/Phoibos, which is
otherwise a name of the sun-god Helios; accordingly, Roman names
also Phoebus/Sol

Artemis
as depicted on an Attic Red Figure, White Ground lekythos, attributed
to the Bowdoin
Painter (c 480-470 BC): Artemis greeting a fawn which jumps up at her.
University Museums, University of Mississippi 1977.3.117